Medical Assistance and Home Care
The goal of the program is to improve life conditions of dependent persons, bedridden people who cannot care for themselves on their own and need assistance and care. Medical care and home care means a complex variety of services within an integrated medical and social system. The main goal of these is to maintain a person’s autonomy, the family’s access to information, support the active participation in the whole process of assistance. The program has a major role in realizing responsible participation from the family members and the local community.
The everyday activities are organized in teams. These teams are made of caretakers, nurses, elderly caretakers, social workers. Each home care team has a leader that organizes the work.
Activities:
• medical care;
• basic attendance;
• help in housework;
• social services;
• renting nursing equipment.